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<b>Universal Viewer Free</b> is an advanced file viewer.<br>
Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:

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<li> <b><font color="darkblue">Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode</font></b>: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">RTF, UTF-8</font></b>: RTF and UTF-8 encoded files
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">Images</font></b>: all general graphics formats: JPG JP2 BMP ICO GIF PNG WMF TGA TIFF...
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">Multimedia</font></b>: all file types supported by <b>MS Windows Media Player</b>: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">PDF, ebooks</font></b>: PDF format (<b>Adobe/Foxit Reader</b> not needed) + XPS DjVu CBR CBZ formats
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">Internet</font></b>: all file types supported by <b>MS Internet Explorer</b>: HTML XML MHT...
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">Plugins</font></b>: all file types supported by <b>Total Commander</b> <a href="http://www.totalcmd.net/directory/lister.html" target="_blank"><b>Lister plugins</b></a>
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">MS Office</font></b>: all file types of <b>MS Office</b> (requires MS Office installed): DOC DOCX XLS PPT...
<li> <b><font color="darkblue">Converters</font></b>: some types can be viewed as plain text: DOC DOCX PDF PPT ODT...
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Application is fully <b>Unicode compatible</b> and can be integrated into
<b>Windows Explorer</b>'s context menu,
so there is no problem to call it from anywhere in Explorer:
right-click on a file and select the "Universal Viewer" item.
It <a href="FAQ.html">can also be integrated</a> into other popular file managers.

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Generally, <b>Universal Viewer</b> is an application similar to <b>Total Commander Lister</b>.
But comparing to Lister, it has the following highlights:

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<li> Built-in functions of popular plugins: images, multimedia, webpages view
<li> Support for multiple codepages: ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ISO etc.
<li> Support for text converters for DOC, DOCX, ODT, PDF etc.
<li> Support for user tools
<li> Toolbar, status bar, other interface improvements
<li> Auto-reloading of file on changing, "Follow tail" option
<li> Displaying of line numbers
<li> Displaying of non-printable characters
<li> Combined Unicode/Hex mode (call Unicode mode twice)
<li> Modern RegEx search library
<li> Print preview
<li> EXIF viewer
<li> NavPanel add-on to add Explorer interface
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Web links:
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<li> <a href="http://www.uvviewsoft.com/lister_plugins.htm" target="_blank">Recommended Lister plugins</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.uvviewsoft.com/files/UniversalViewerIniReloc.zip">Configuration files relocation tool</a> <br>
<li> <a href="http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/Universal_Viewer:_issues_with_Lister_plugins" target="_blank">Known issues with Lister plugins</a> <br>
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